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Analyst Brian Billick and play-by-play announcer Thom Brennaman delivered smart, smooth and informative coverage of the Ravens’ victory over the Dallas Cowboys Sunday on Fox. The entire production — from Laura Okmin’s sideline reports to the myriad and sharply focused angles from which the cameras closely followed key plays — was so vastly superior to what Ravens fans usually get with second- and third-string CBS Sports crews that the telecast felt like a gift from the sports gods on this weekend of mourning Orioles elimination from postseason play. But before I say too many nice things about the former Ravens coach and his Fox Sports cohorts, I need to say...

Observations of the stuff that aired in between commercials Sunday:
* The big number for NBC is 111.5 million: The number of viewers who watched last year's Super Bowl, the largest TV audience of all time. So the network wasn't upset that a huge...